Saint Stephen’s Church of England Parsonage Camperdown Sale Act 1886 50 Vic (NSW)

Sr. STEPHEN'Ss CHURCH OF En@uanp Parson- AGE CAMPERDOWN Lanp Saez.

Preamble.

Power to sell,

50° VIC. 1886.

St. Stephen's Church of England Parsonage Camperdown Land Sale.

An Act to enable the Right Reverend Alfred Barry Lord Bishop of Sydney Trustee of certain land in the County of Cumberland Parish of Petersham at Camperdown to sell the same and to provide for the

application of the proceeds thereof. [18th August, 1886. |

HEREAS by a grant from the Crown bearing date the fourteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight Her Majesty Queen Victoria did grant unto the Right Reverend William Grant Broughton the then Lord Bishop of Sydney and his successors Bishops of Sydney forever All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement two roods be the same more or less situated in the county of Cumberland and parish of Petersham at Cam- perdown Commencing at the Cook's River Road at the corner of Senate and Throne Streets and bounded on the south by Senate-street being a line bearing south seventy-eight degrees west two chains fifty links on the west by a line at right angles to Senate-street two chains on the north by a line parallel with Senate-street two chains fifty links and on the east by Throne-street being a line at right angles to Senate-street two chains to the corner at the Cook's River Road as aforesaid (advertised as number one hundred and five in the Government notice dated the thirteenth day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty- seven) Upon trust for the appropriation thereof as the site of a dwell- ing-house garden and other appurtenances for the clergyman duly appointed to officiate in the Church of the United Church of England anid Ireland as by law established erected at Camperdown and now known as '' Saint Stephen's"" And whereas since the date of the said grant the said William Grant Broughton departed this life andthe Right Reverend Alfred Barry is now Lord Bishop of Sydney And whereas a dwelling-house or parsonage for the clergyman of the said Church of Saint Stephen's was many years ago erected on the said piece or parcel of land but the same is unsuitable for the purposes for which the said land was granted and it is expedient that the said land and parsonage should be sold and the proceeds applied in or towards the purchase or erection of other premises in a more suitable position within the said parish of Saint Stephen's Camperdown as a residence for the clergyman of the said church Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Par- liament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—